Senior Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) leader Eknath Khadse on March 15 clarified neither he, nor his daughter, would be contesting the Raver Lok Sabha seat in north Maharashtra’s Jalgaon district in the coming general election.
Mr. Khadse, currently an MLC, was being touted as a possible candidate for the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition for the Raver seat in Jalgaon.
Earlier this week, the BJP, in its second list of candidates, announced its incumbent, two-term MP Raksha Khadse for the Raver seat. Raksha is Mr. Khadse’s daughter-in-law.